Pakistan bowlers Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal have been appointed the fast bowling and spin bowling coaches of the national squad for the upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Umar, a member of the 2009 World T20 winning squad, has worked before with the Pakistan team as a bowling coach, while this is the first time Saeed has been given an assignment with the national side.
The Pakistan cricket board said that initial assignments for both former stalwarts would include the Test series against Australia scheduled from December 14 to January 7 and the T20I series against New Zealand from January 12 to 21 next year.
The board has already named Mohammad Hafeez as the director and head coach of the Pakistan squad and fast bowler Wahab Riaz as the new chief selector in a spate of changes after the national team’s poor World Cup campaign.
The induction of Umar and Saeed and Hafeez’s assignment basically means that the foreign coaches, including Mickey Arthur and Grant Bradburn, will no longer be working with the national side.
